#critics

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic. ↗

— Roman Payne

#critics #literary-criticism #payne #roman #love

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#because #criticism #critics #enough #friend

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. ↗

— Russell Baker

#critics #even #expecting #friends #important

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#become #certain #certain point #come #critics

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #any #arena #bad #been

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#art #critic #critics #find #i

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#meals #people #photographs #states #taking

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#critics #else #encountered #few #having

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cry #finest #full #hears #human

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#because #critics #fear #need #people